If this is a branch that is Alpha, then why would it be numbered 1.3? The file version should
indicate its status. Wouldn't be better
to have it named like this "generic-pc-0.3a1BSD6.img" that way people would know that this is based
of BSD 6, and that this branches
state is pre-release. So what if it is a branch. Basically I am using PFsense as an example, they
branched using FreeBSD 6 and have the
files indicated as such. 

The average or common user would look at this file and say, hey it is a newer version. Although the
"a" should indicate Alpha, I would
assume though that most everday users may or may not know this. My question has more to do with the
fact that since this is essentially
a new branch, shouldn't it be indicated as such. This way when the FreeBSD6 version is stable, it
could be released as 1.0. 

Although I do not think this is the case, too often I find in open-source projects people are way
too free on how they provision the
version numbers. Just my opinion

Sean Waite

-----Original Message-----
From: Dinesh Nair <dinesh at alphaque dot com>
To: Harri Hyyppa <oh6hik at sral dot fi>
Cc: m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 16:52:57 +0800
Subject: Re: [m0n0wall] monowall 1.3 beta version download??

> 
> 
> On 03/01/06 06:34 Harri Hyyppa said the following:
> > Just a stupid question. :-) Why is 
> > <http://m0n0.ch/wall/downloads/generic-pc-1.3a1.img>generic-pc-1.3a1.img 
> > dated earlier than 
> > <http://m0n0.ch/wall/downloads/generic-pc-1.21.img>generic-pc-1.21.img ?
> 
> that's because 1.3a1 came before 1.21. for a brief description of the 
> numbering system, 1.2 is the stable, production ready m0n0wall which most 
> people are using. it's based on freebsd 4.x.
> 
> 1.3 is a branch i started in an effort to port m0n0wall over to freebsd 
> 6.x, and the images on the download site are examples of this. m0n0wall 1.3 
> is still in ALPHA and far from ready for production until it's fully tested 
> by the community. as of now, i've received very little feedback from 
> testers, hence the rather lagged update cycle. i'd greatly appreciate more 
> testing on functionality, performance as well as breakage on the 1.3 series.
> 
> -- 
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